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In search of a ‘developmental state’
Get PDFThis Special Issue on Economics and Labour is divided into two sections. It pairs contributions on current economic development with three articles presented at a conference marking 50 years since the Durban Strikes of 1973. That said, all of the authors reflect widely on history and on immediate challenges, both for South Africa and the continent at large
Book Extract: "Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change" by Yasmine El Rashidi
Get PDFPRAISE FOR Laughter in the Dark
“Laughter in the Dark is a brilliantly composed portrait of Egypt’s answer to hip-hop—and how it functions as a musical genre, economic engine, and cultural force amid the restrictions of an increasingly authoritarian regime. Meticulously reported and elegantly written, it’s a must-read for any global citizen.” –ZACK O’MALLEY GREENBURG, author of Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office
“In Laughter in the Dark, Yasmine El Rashidi provides a brisk, brilliant, and brave portrait of young Egyptians simmering under the weight of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s repressive dictatorship and reveals the stark inequality between the rulers and the ruled.” –BASHARAT PEER, author of A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongme
Corruption v democracy - part three: The 2024 elections
No full textFor the first time since 1994 the ANC’s share of the national vote has fallen below 50%, declining from 57.5% in 2019 to 40.2% in 2024. As significant, the provincial shares in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provinces fell well below 50%, with the recently formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, led by none other than Jacob Zuma, capturing 45.35% share of the KZN vote and the ANC share dropping from 54.2% to a paltry 16.9%. In Gauteng the ANC’s share of the vote declined from 50.2% to 34.6%. The Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) share remained approximately stable at 27.5% in Gauteng and 21.8% nationally.The ANC leadership has publicly acknowledged that corruption and, associated with it, extremely poor delivery of social services (largely a provincial and local government responsibility), is a leading cause of the electorate’s devastating judgment. The upshot is that in the national government and in three provinces (Gauteng, KZN and the Northern Cape), the ANC has had to form or constitute part of a coalition government to continue to participate in a majority government
Locating academic development within the decolonial turn in higher education: The affordances of systems thinking for decolonial practice
Get PDFThe student protests of 2015 and 2016 (re)surfaced the call to decolonise South African higher education (HE), highlighting the alienation experienced by black students within historically white institutions. This article describes how an academic development unit at one such institution responds as part of its reconceptualisation process. We consider the interplay between policy, structure, and practice within our context, and the extent to which these enable decolonial work. We also show how approaches to decolonisation within HE work to reinscribe coloniality and argue that these must be holistic and intentional to transform exclusionary institutional practices and the structures that sustain them. Drawing on the area of support services, which is typically designed around individualistic approaches to help-seeking, we illustrate, through a case study, how systems thinking principles enable productive decolonial work within colonial structures, and their affordances to inform policy for an integrated and responsive student support system
Sharing vulnerability: A duoethnographic enquiry into the development of digital competencies at a South African university
Get PDFThe duoethnographic enquiry discussed in this article grapples, in a dialogical way, with our experiences of professional learning while seeking to increase our digital competencies. The process involved happened while we were learning to use Mentimeter, an interactive presentation software. The purpose of this duoethnographic enquiery is not to provide solutions or shortcuts through a sharing of our professional learning journey. Rather we share our experiences in the hope that other higher education (HE) educators will join the conversation and reflect on their digital competencies journey. In this paper, we first present the background followed by a brief discussion of the HeDiCom framework of HE educators’ digital competencies. Then we briefly discuss duoethnography as a method. Our three main findings are presented as conversations, followed by a discussion in which we weave the insights from our conversations into a critical reflection on the applicability of the HeDiCom framework
The Poetry of Our Lives
Get PDF‘... the passions/of dolphins’ In the mid-1980s at the University of Natal, the student body was overwhelmingly of white, middle class and suburban upbringing. Most had attended well-performing, or reasonably performing, schools. The smattering of Indian and African faces in the lecture halls signalled the unravelling of ‘grand’ apartheid (to use an oxymoron of the time). The parents of these students had probably managed, by whatever means, to enter the peripheries of the white suburbs, or the white economy
Afterword
Get PDFThis Special Issue uses the African concept of ukuzilanda to reflect on the authors’ experiences of ‘becoming an academic’ at UWC. Central to this experience is the writing retreat, in particular one held inMay 2022, during which the authors engaged in a reflective writing session, which gave impetus to this volume
OoNomfundo: a teacher raised by teachers
Get PDFBackground: The inspiration for this reflection piece originates from dialoguesn shared with colleagues over mealtimes at the 2022 Learning and Teaching Arts Faculty Writing Retreat for early career researchers and academics. As an early career academic, researcher and relatively newly appointed member of the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape at the time of the retreat, it was these moments that allowed me to find my feet in what was initially a daunting experience. Through the conversations, laughter and sometimes tears, we began to share pieces of ourselves - from the commonality of our present daily personal lives right to our lived experiences and histories